bills to victims from hurricane sandy. he's hoping other people will follow his example. >> some of the people watching the story behind the scenes here, they have been crying. so, that story is coming up. >>> we're going to start with that mess in the west. the third in a nasty hat trick of storms bearing down tonight. and meteorologist, ginger zee, covering the whole thing. as we wait for the blizzard, this will hold you over, right? >> this will hold me over. this is not so great for a lot of folks out west. a supersoaker. let's get right to it. more than ten inches of rain has already fallen at clear creek, california. st. helena, california, just over nine inches. so, how much more will we get? it's going to be on the order of 20 inches of storm total rainfall. on top of it, you have video like this coming in. this from parts of california in the san francisco bay area. wind gusts up to 54 miles per hour in the city. and outside, some of the higher terrain had 88-mile-per-hour gusts. and we go to nevada because it is not just california. they are sandbagging, preparing for m